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Hearing Problems in Children
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Overviews
- Treatment
- Prevention/Screening
- Rehabilitation/Recovery
- Coping
- Specific Conditions
- Related Issues
- Clinical Trials
- Genetics
- Research
- Anatomy/Physiology
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Directories
- Organizations
- Law and Policy
- Statistics
- Teenagers
From the National Institutes of Health
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Communication Considerations for Parents of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
Also available in: Spanish - Silence Isn't Always Golden (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
Also available in: Spanish
Overviews
- Overviews
- Hearing Loss in Children (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Hearing Problems in Children (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish - Raising Deaf Kids (Deafness and Family Communication Center)
Also available in: Spanish
Treatment
- Treatment
- Children and Hearing Aids (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Treatment of Hearing Loss in Children (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- What Are Assistive Listening Devices or "ALDs"? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Prevention/Screening
- Prevention/Screening
- Has Your Baby's Hearing Been Screened? (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
Also available in: Spanish - Hearing Evaluation in Children (Nemours Foundation)
- Hearing Understanding Screening Results (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- What to Do if Your Babys Screening Reveals a Possible Hearing Problem (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
Rehabilitation/Recovery
- Rehabilitation/Recovery
- Aural Rehabilitation for Children (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Auditory Processing Disorder in Children (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
Also available in: Spanish - Can Loud Music Hurt My Ears? (Nemours Foundation)
- Causes of Hearing Loss in Children (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder (Nemours Foundation)
- Deafness and Hearing Loss (National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities)
- Effects of Hearing Loss in Children (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Noisy Toys, Dangerous Play (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Use of Vaccines for the Prevention of Meningitis in Persons with Cochlear Implants (National Immunization Program)
- Usher Syndrome (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- What's Hearing Loss? (Nemours Foundation)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- American Sign Language (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- How Does Your Child Hear and Talk? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Also available in: Spanish
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Hearing Disorders (National Institutes of Health)
Genetics
- Genetics
- Genetics Home Reference: Nonsyndromic deafness (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Usher syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics of Infant Hearing Loss (National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities)
Research
- Research
- Better Communication Needed to Reduce Infants 'Lost to Follow-Up' (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Can You Hear Me Now?: What Teens Know about Hearing Loss (Nemours Foundation)
- Early Diagnosis of Usher Syndrome Type 1 Made Possible by New Findings (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- New Way to Identify Usher Syndrome in Children (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Usher Syndrome: New Insights Lead to Earlier Treatment (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
Anatomy/Physiology
- Anatomy/Physiology
- Atlas of the Body: The Ear (American Medical Association)
- How Hearing & Balance Work (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Let's Hear It for the Ear! (Nemours Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- NIDCD Glossary (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
Directories
- Directories
- Directory of Organizations (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Find a Professional: Online Directory of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Programs (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Organizations
- Organizations
- American Academy of Audiology
- American Hearing Research Foundation
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Law and Policy
- Law and Policy
- Status of State Universal Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening Legislation and Laws (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Statistics
- Statistics
- Hearing Loss (National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities)